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perf tools: Enable LBR call stack support

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Currently, there are two call chain recording options, fp and dwarf.

Haswell has a new feature that utilizes the existing LBR facility to
record call chains. Kernel side LBR support code provides this as a
third option to record call chains. This patch enables the lbr call
stack support on the tooling side.

LBR call stack has some limitations:

 - It reuses current LBR facility, so LBR call stack and branch record
   can not be enabled at the same time.

 - It is only available for user-space callchains.

However, it also offers some advantages:

 - LBR call stack can work on user apps which don't have frame-pointers
   or dwarf debug info compiled. It is a good alternative when nothing
   else works.

Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Jacob Shin <jacob.w.shin@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Rodrigo Campos <rodrigo@sdfg.com.ar>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1420482185-29830-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Kan Liang
2015-01-05 13:23:04 -05:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 2c44b1936b
commit aad2b21c15
6 changed files with 40 additions and 6 deletions
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tools/perf/util/evsel.c
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@@ -537,13 +537,30 @@ int perf_evsel__group_desc(struct perf_evsel *evsel, char *buf, size_t size)
}
static void
perf_evsel__config_callgraph(struct perf_evsel *evsel)
perf_evsel__config_callgraph(struct perf_evsel *evsel,
struct record_opts *opts)
{
bool function = perf_evsel__is_function_event(evsel);
struct perf_event_attr *attr = &evsel->attr;
perf_evsel__set_sample_bit(evsel, CALLCHAIN);
if (callchain_param.record_mode == CALLCHAIN_LBR) {
if (!opts->branch_stack) {
if (attr->exclude_user) {
pr_warning("LBR callstack option is only available "
"to get user callchain information. "
"Falling back to framepointers.\n");
} else {
perf_evsel__set_sample_bit(evsel, BRANCH_STACK);
attr->branch_sample_type = PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_USER |
PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_CALL_STACK;
}
} else
pr_warning("Cannot use LBR callstack with branch stack. "
"Falling back to framepointers.\n");
}
if (callchain_param.record_mode == CALLCHAIN_DWARF) {
if (!function) {
perf_evsel__set_sample_bit(evsel, REGS_USER);
@@ -667,7 +684,7 @@ void perf_evsel__config(struct perf_evsel *evsel, struct record_opts *opts)
evsel->attr.exclude_callchain_user = 1;
if (callchain_param.enabled && !evsel->no_aux_samples)
perf_evsel__config_callgraph(evsel);
perf_evsel__config_callgraph(evsel, opts);
if (opts->sample_intr_regs) {
attr->sample_regs_intr = PERF_REGS_MASK;